There are twelve thousand of them and the lists are not yet complete." (Feb.

1, 1794.)--Anne Plumptre.2A Narrative of Three years' Residence in France, from 1802 to 1805." "During this period the streets of Marseilles were almost those of a deserted town.

One could go from one end of the town to the other without meeting any one he could call an inhabitant.

The great terrorists, of whom scarcely one was a Marseillaise, the soldiers and roughs as they called themselves, were almost the only persons encountered.

The latter, to the number of fifty or sixty, in jackets with leather straps, fell upon all whom they did not like, and especially on anybody with a clean shirt and white cravat.
Many persons on the "Cours" were thus whipped to death.